Human Rights Movies

With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of activism, using humour and reason to confront...

A former military officer makes a film about a man he encountered in Tanjong Rhu, a secluded cruising ground.

Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refugees, examining the human, political, financial and...

A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

"Zapatista" is the definitive look at the uprising in Chiapas. It is the story of a Mayan peasant rebellion armed with sticks and their word against...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first...

Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at the place where a murder happened? What...

Born in the small-town of Kutch, Rashmi overcomes all societal barriers to become a national-level athlete. But her glory is hindered when she is...

A powerful set of stories of “righteous persons” taking action along the U.S.-Mexico border, motivated by moral conviction and...

When an eight year old kid, Ningning, had a pink chick who fulfilled the love she has been longing for from her sister, she once again experienced...

A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In...

Throughout the Islamic world, each year hundreds of women are shot, stabbed, strangled or burned to death by male relatives because they are thought...

When a teenager from a political family in the Philippines is accused of a double murder, the country’s entire judicial system is put to the...

Ped, a soccer student who wishes to go to college using a scholarship but his school cut all the training due to PM2.5 so he trains alone for the...

Laleh is a true story of a young woman in post-revolution Iran, struggling against all odds to break through in one of the most male dominated sports...

In 2014, during a trip, American Tim Bruns discovered cliffs in a small village five minutes north of Ramallah in Palestine and got to work equipping...

A look back over nine years of the Syrian Civil War, an inextricable conflict, like a black box, due to the competing interests of the many factions...